Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 25 - 31, 2015 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Storytellers Irish singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is live in Dublin in this new edition of the concert series. 7 and 10 p.m. VH1 MythBusters Adam and Jamie take on the 1980s TV series "The A-Team" in this new episode. 9 p.m. Discovery Channel Black Sails This pirate drama from producer Michael Bay is back for a second season; with Toby Stephens and Luke Arnold. 9 p.m. Starz Saturday Night Live Blake Shelton ("The Voice") pulls double duty as...

When: 7 PST.
Where: Jon M. Huntsman Center, Salt Lake City.
On the air: TV: ESPNU; Radio: 690.
Records: USC 8-4, Utah 10-2.
Update: The Trojans have won six or their last seven games, but they will be tested right away in their Pac-12 Conference...

NBC's hiring of Chelsea Clinton as a "special correspondent" in its news division was widely recognized as an exercise in corporate cynicism when it was announced in November 2011.
Now a price tag has been hung on that scandal,...

Judged strictly as strategy, and not, say, for its morality, Karl Rove’s blast at Hillary Clinton on Tuesday demonstrated how the game of political trickery manifests itself in the Internet age. Allegation reported, allegation denied, outrage from the...

Last week, the White House issued a new and alarming edition of its national report on climate change. How did leading Republicans respond?
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the GOP's leader in the Senate, scoffed at President Obama for "talking about...

After losing the popular vote in five of the last six presidential races, Republicans commissioned a study to determine what, exactly, was ailing the Grand Old Party and concluded, among others things, the problem was too much free speech.
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Let's acknowledge at the top that Abby Huntsman, one of the four anchors of MSNBC's youth-oriented news show "The Cycle," has taken on an ambitious task for herself: She's been trying to discuss U.S. fiscal policy, which is chock full of...

Abby Huntsman is really, really upset about Social Security. We know this because the television presenter, a daughter of former GOP Presidential contender Jon Huntsman, went on an extended rant about it Thursday on MSNBC's "The Cycle." The show...

BEIJING -- Gary Locke, the first Chinese American ambassador to Beijing, said Wednesday he will leave his post early next year to rejoin his wife and three children in Seattle.
The former Commerce secretary and two-term governor of Washington said his...

If you hadn't read anything about David Dreier since he retired from Congress last January -- well, that was then, this is now.
Out of office, the 16-term Republican congressman whose San Gabriel Valley district got redrawn out from under him (he says...

As talk of a boycott against the movie of Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" began to gain traction last week, I found myself thinking about the project not as a story, but rather as a crucible of sorts. The film has come under scrutiny because...

Some companies are considering adopting the standards of the Wild West to fight back against online bandits.
With news of cyber attack or a data breach in the news nearly every day, a number of companies are searching for a way to stop the barrage....

The financial crisis fueled anger with the world's "takers" — those people who "like to get more than they give," in author Adam Grant's pithy definition.
Everyone is searching for a sustainable formula for recovery that not only...

Phone rates: In the Feb. 12 Business section, a column about rising rates for basic telephone service said that Verizon had raised its monthly rate for basic phone service by $1.90 in 2010. The monthly increase was $1, to $20.91.
Temple restoration: In...